Senor Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

About the Role

Oracle brings together data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power industry innovations and life-saving care. With AI embedded across products and services, Oracle helps customers create a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives. True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute.

Key Responsibilities

• System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:
• Design, implement, and optimize components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Implement and contribute to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling, including leveraging distributed state management tools.
• Optimize code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
• Implement scalability requirements for assigned components and review implementation of team members.
• Leverage components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Implement performance and load testing.
• System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:
• Build fault-tolerant paths (redundancy, replication, automatic failover).
• Collaborate with the team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• Apply recovery-oriented principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
• Implement retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.
• System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:
• Implement tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
• Support efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
• Build and customize dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.
• System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:
• Design and implement functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
• Implement tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
• Implement standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
• Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
• Diagnose, debug, and resolve issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
• Implement basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Design and implement automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
• Participate in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations (RCAs).
• Author runbooks.
• Automation & Change Management:
• Develop automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Maintain automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
• Adhere to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
• Compliance & Security:
• Apply advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation) while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.
• Apply advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• Implement remediation plans to continuously improve security.
• Collaborate with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date.
• Planning & Execution:
• Track timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
• Prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance.
• Collaboration & Partnership:
• Collaborate across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships.
• Actively listen to diverse perspectives and ask questions to ensure understanding of others.
• Problem Solving:
• Independently identify and address standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate.
• Analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and best practices.
• Continuous Learning:
• Embrace continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices.
• Seek out and leverage feedback and training to improve skills.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Develop ideas and recommend updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team.
• Seek input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Distributed systems
• Scalability
• Resiliency
• Operability
• Data plane platforms
• Distributed state tools
• Fault-tolerant paths
• Recovery-oriented principles
• Retries
• Circuit breakers
• Timeouts
• Tests
• Alarms
• Dashboards
• Telemetry
• Runbooks
• Incident response
• RCAs (Root Cause Analyses)
• Replication
• Synchronization
• Automation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation)
• Change management
• Compliance
• Documentation

Qualifications

• Possess the ability to track timelines with minimal supervision.
• Ability to prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance.
• Ability to collaborate across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
• Ability to build and maintain a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs.
• Ability to actively listen to diverse perspectives and ask questions to ensure understanding of others.
• Ability to independently identify and address standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate.
• Ability to analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors.
• Ability to contribute to knowledge sharing and best practices.
• Ability to actively seek to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools.
• Ability to stay current with industry trends and best practices.
• Ability to seek out and leverage feedback and training to improve skills.
• Ability to contribute to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
• Ability to develop ideas and recommend updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows.
• Ability to seek input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.